Controlling the Architecture of Freeze-Dried Collagen Scaffolds with Ultrasound-Induced Nucleation

Author:

Song Xinyuan1,Philpott Matthew A.1,Best Serena M.1ORCID,Cameron Ruth E.1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FS, UK

Abstract

Collagen is a naturally occurring polymer that can be freeze-dried to create 3D porous scaffold architectures for potential application in tissue engineering. The process comprises the freezing of water in an aqueous slurry followed by sublimation of the ice via a pre-determined temperature–pressure regime and these parameters determine the arrangement, shape and size of the ice crystals. However, ice nucleation is a stochastic process, and this has significant and inherent limitations on the ability to control scaffold structures both within and between the fabrication batches. In this paper, we demonstrate that it is possible to overcome the disadvantages of the stochastic process via the use of low-frequency ultrasound (40 kHz) to trigger nucleation, on-demand, in type I insoluble bovine collagen slurries. The application of ultrasound was found to define the nucleation temperature of collagen slurries, precisely tailoring the pore architecture and providing important new structural and mechanistic insights. The parameter space includes reduction in average pore size and narrowing of pore size distributions while maintaining the percolation diameter. A set of core principles are identified that highlight the huge potential of ultrasound to finely tune the scaffold architecture and revolutionise the reproducibility of the scaffold fabrication protocol.

Funder

Benefactors’ scholarship, St John’s College, Cambridge

EPSRC fellowship

EPSRC

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Polymers and Plastics,General Chemistry

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